Ricky Gervais Quotes

I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

I'm not big on fat jokes. That's a little beneath me. I'm not a huge fan of making a joke - and as I say this, I'm sure I do it - completely at someone else's expense.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Stalin is too coarse for the position of General Secretary. We need someone more polite and more considerate.

If You are mighty, gain respect through knowledge and gentleness of speech. Do not command except as is fitting.

I think it's important to be subtle, sweet, and powerful.

The old Logan was plain old insensitive.

The thing is, if you come on the 'Roadshow' we are not going to humiliate you. The thing about the 'Antiques Roadshow' is not to humiliate people.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?" "I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.

I'm not a person that's easily embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed for other people.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

Love looks around to see who is in need